Nova Scotia to spend $600k over 2 years on PGA Tour event at Ashburn
HALIFAX – The Nova Scotia government plans to spend $600,000 over the next two years to bring a professional golf tournament to Halifax.
The government says top golfers are expected to compete in the PGA Tour event at the Ashburn Golf Club in Fall River from July 3-6 and again next year.
The Nova Scotia Open is the only Canadian stop on the PGA’s Web.com Tour.
Canadian golfers Mike Weir, Graham Delaet, and David Hearn will participate.
“Obviously we’d like to support our Canadian guys and when we have someone as successful as Graham Delaet is today, that’s going to be a huge drawi
ng card for this event.”
Tourism Minister Michel Samson says the event is expected to be televised on the Golf Channel to a potential audience of 81 million households in 192 countries.
As well, the PGA Tour Canada Cape Breton Celtic Classic will held Sept. 1-7 at The Lakes Golf Club in Ben Eoin.
Nova Scotia will be the only province in Canada to play host to two PGA Tour events this year.
*with files from Global News’ Ray Bradshaw
The government says top golfers are expected to compete in the PGA Tour event at the Ashburn Golf Club in Fall River from July 3-6 and again next year.
The Nova Scotia Open is the only Canadian stop on the PGA’s Web.com Tour.
Canadian golfers Mike Weir, Graham Delaet, and David Hearn will participate.
“I think it’s going to be tremendous for Nova Scotia, particularly given Graham’s recent success,” said Stephen Vaslet, the incoming president of the new Ashburn Golf Club.
ng card for this event.”
Tourism Minister Michel Samson says the event is expected to be televised on the Golf Channel to a potential audience of 81 million households in 192 countries.
As well, the PGA Tour Canada Cape Breton Celtic Classic will held Sept. 1-7 at The Lakes Golf Club in Ben Eoin.
Nova Scotia will be the only province in Canada to play host to two PGA Tour events this year.
*with files from Global News’ Ray Bradshaw
© The Canadian Press, 2014
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March 22, 2014 Hard to believe that we were mowing greens last season now . Winter is hanging on tight but is slowly losing the fight to spring . Hard long cold winter . Course is looking good .Greens wintered well . As soon as the crew gets back Brian Gouthro and crew will be hard at it get things in tournament shape . Still some snow around but the late core aeration and slit drainage really helped keep the greens dryer. The mid winter melt we had really helped out to .
March 22, 2014 Hard to believe that we were mowing greens last season now . Winter is hanging on tight but is slowly losing the fight to spring . Hard long cold winter . Course is looking good .Greens wintered well . As soon as the crew gets back Brian Gouthro and crew will be hard at it get things in tournament shape . Still some snow around but the late core aeration and slit drainage really helped keep the greens dryer. The mid winter melt we had really helped out to .
Here are a few picks of the course today .
#1 green
Looking good
#1 fairway
# 6 green
Me and the dog checking out #7
#7 green
#7 walking over from 8 tee
#8 green still some snow cover
The areas that melted off look great
Walking up to #15 green
This area gets a lot of snow coverage .
Also looking great
#16 green
#7 fairway looking to the tee
Both course were hit with snow mold on fairways this year . Not uncommon after this kind of winter . Spraying for it would be very expensive . Lots of new growth ready too pop through . Not a usually a concern .
More pictures of receding ice . Turf looks great!!
Par 3 #16 tee area
#16 from first of fairway looking looking at green
#17 green
#17 fairway looking towards Tee .
Looking from back of #17 to towards 10 green and club house upper left .
Overall of to a better start than expected . Now patiently waiting for the perfect spring .
Winter storm of March 26 2014
And a little set back .
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The calm before the storm
Neighbors house ? mid storm
Lots of snow and still windy . /
A good 8 " and drifting up to 3 feet in some areas . Going to be 80 km hr winds the rest of the day temps holding around -3 C.
New Course Club House .
Lots of snow down by the maintenance buildings .
Here is a little video on my walk up to the course . A little out of breath dodging plow trucks with the dog . Lol
Got to love the Maritime weather . You just never know what your getting from year to year . At least it's spring? it will melt out quickly .
Springs finally here .Day time temperatures have been in the pluses along with lots of wind. The courses are starting to dry up a little are coming back to life .A few pictures from today April 20th 2014.
Looking back to Club house from 1 Tee .
Greens are looking fantastic . #1 here, # 2 fairway in background . All the greens are looking great and soon will be getting their first cut .
The 3 covered bridges give the river area a rustic look .
We had some torrential rain falls and new culvert did a great job . So far spring is cooperating and looking forward to the new season . The full time seasonal staff are back and out doing some finishing touches to last last falls projects .
Lots of small debris from the wind and the large tow behind blowers will make quick work of that once it dries up a little more .
Got to love the Maritime weather . You just never know what your getting from year to year . At least it's spring? it will melt out quickly .
Springs finally here .Day time temperatures have been in the pluses along with lots of wind. The courses are starting to dry up a little are coming back to life .A few pictures from today April 20th 2014.
Practice area
Dogs raring to go . Good thing I kept the long lead on her ...we came across a very large deer on # 3 fairway.
Practice green.
Looking back to Club house from 1 Tee .
Greens are looking fantastic . #1 here, # 2 fairway in background . All the greens are looking great and soon will be getting their first cut .
The 3 covered bridges give the river area a rustic look .
Lots of small debris from the wind and the large tow behind blowers will make quick work of that once it dries up a little more .
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